ἀμφι-μάομαι

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     ἀμφιμάομαι

     ἀμφι-μάομαι

    (только imper. aor. ἀμφιμάσασθε) кругом обтирать, вытирать

    

(τραπέζας σπόγγοισι Hom.)

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `seek after, for, search for, touch, pursue', in present also `seek to attain' (Il.).

Other forms: Aeol. also μάομαι (Sapph. 36?), fut. μάσσομαι, aor. - μάσσασθαι.

Compounds: usu. with ἐπι-, in the aor. also with εἰσ-, ἐκ-, ἀμφι-, μετα-μαίομαι (Pi. Ν. 3, 81)

Derivatives: Verbaladj.: ἀ-προτί-μαστος `untouched' (Τ 263), ἐπί-μαστος adjunct of ἀλήτης (υ 377), meaning unclear, cf. Bechtel Lex. s. v. - Nom. actionis: μάσμα n. `searching' (Cratin. 424, Pl. Kra. 421 b), μαστύς, - ύος f. `id.' (Call. Fr. 277; Benveniste Noms d'agent 73). -- Nom. agentis: μαστήρ m. (also f., Schwyzer 530) `searcher' (trag.), also name of an Athen. officer (Hyp.), cf. Benveniste 40, Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 4; with μάστειρα f. (A.), μαστήριος Έρμῆς `God of the tracing' (A.; Schulze Kl. Schr. 168 n. 3); Μάστωρ ep. PN (Benveniste 54, Fraenkel 1, 14; 2, 11); μαστρός m. name of a financial officer (Pellene, Rhodos, Delphi) with μαστρικός (Delphi II<sup>a</sup>), μα-στρ(ε)ία, El. μαστράα = εὔθυνα (Messen. I<sup>p</sup>, H.), cf. Schwyzer 532 w. n. 2, details in Fraenkel 1, 163 n. 2; as 1.(?) member in μαστρ-οπός m. f. `procur(ess)' with - οπικός, - οπεύω, - οπεία (Att.); hypocor. μάστρυς f. (Phot.). - Denomin. in -( τ)εύω (Schwyzer 732): μαστεύω `search' (Pi., A.; Epid., X.) with μάστ-ευσις (Epid. IV^a, Archim.), - ευτής (X., Fraenkel 2, 62), - εία (VI^p); vgl. ματεύω. -- Here perh. also PN like Εὔ-μαιος, Οἰνό-μαος, Μαίων (ep.). -- On μάστιξ, μάσθλης s. vv. On μαστροπός s.v, which is Pre-Greek.

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: The sigmatic forms, e.g. aor. - μάσσασθαι and ἀ-προτί-μαστος, make for μαίομαι a basis *μασ-ι̯ο-μαι possible; the σ-forms may however also belong to ματέω, ματεύω, s. v. - Usually μαίομαι `touch' and μαίομαι `strive, try' (the latter with gen.) are considered as two diff. verbs (Bechtel Lex. s. v., WP. 2, 220 a. 238f., Pok. 693 a. 704f., Schwyzer-Debrunner 105); but the meaning `try to reach, strive after' can be explained easily from the conative aspect of the present-stem. - No clear agreement. In the sense of `touch' compared with some words for `beckon with the hand etc.', e.g. OCS na-ma-jǫ, - jati `beckon', Lith. mó-ju, --ti `beckon', mos-úoti `turn, swing', with also μηνύω (s.v.); as `strive, try' however to μαιμάω, μῶμαι (s. vv.). -- After Belardi Maia 2, 277ff. (s. also Doxa 3, 213) as `touch' to μάρη etc.

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